Charles Hapgood - Elwood Babbitt

Elwood Babbitt

Actively interested in parapsychology and spirit communication, Hapgood spent a decade working with the New England medium Elwood Babbitt in attempts to make contact with notable figures from the past. Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's "trance lectures" which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books:Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt (1975), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt (1981), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance (1982).